astrid, 23 days ago

@isabel it sucks so bad that I have gotten to the point of writing generators for github actions workflows

isabel, 23 days ago

@astrid now that is the tech we need :blobpray:

astrid, 23 days ago

@isabel I keep saying I'm going to export my nix gh actions generator to a new repo but I keep forgetting ;-;

teidesu, 23 days ago

@astrid @isabel i thought that is a pretty common practice?

at least at work we generate pipelines from code, and ive seen a handful of foss projects doing that too (though i wont name any off the top of my head)

astrid, 23 days ago

@teidesu @isabel oh, it's common? that makes a lot of sense actually

isabel, 23 days ago

@teidesu @astrid yeah, I've messed around with dynamic matrices. I pushed one to the catppuccin AUR RFC repo the other day

astrid, 23 days ago

@isabel @teidesu I feel like at the point you start having to do dynamic matrices you might as well just generate the workflow file. but idk

isabel, 23 days ago

@astrid @teidesu I mean yeah custom workflows would be nice but are just such a pain to create

danhulton, 24 days ago

@isabel @jakehamilton What's your preferred alternative?